It appears from a reply given by Sir S. Northcote
on Thursday, that the new Indian Furlough Rules have gone to Calcutta again for revision, but when revised will be issued without further reference home. The key to that very odd arrangement is, we presume, this. The Indian Secretary liked the new rules, which would double the pleasantness of Indian service, but the majority -of the Council, who want to keep India a separate planet, did not. Sir Stafford was firm, the Council was obstinate, and to save everybody's dignity the rules were sent to the Viceroy, with a public criticism on their liberality and a private hint to alter them as little as may be, the regular mode of doing Indian business. We do not know that this has been the course of the affair, but we strongly suspect it, and venture to predict that the alterations -will not be very important.
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